Dear Juno,
I think you made a pretty great decision, though I think anything you could’ve decided to do would’ve been great. It isn’t my place to judge you or say that your personal choices are wrong. You chose to have the baby and give it to someone who really and truly wanted a baby; someone who was financially and emotionally ready to support a one, and would be more than capable to do so without assistance. You had the strength to go through all of it, the physical, emotional, and mental strength, all of it. I think that you knew you could do it and that you were sure of your capabilities, and as long as you had strong intentions I don’t see how I could ever deem those as wrong or say that the decision you made was a bad one.
I personally am pro-choice, I believe that just because my beliefs go against something it doesn’t mean that those who agree with the other side are wrong, it just means they view the world differently which is okay. If we all agreed all the time the world would go nowhere, we would live a very stagnant life and I like a little opposition from time to time. However I don’t think that opposition should go as far as to declare what I decide to do with my own body. And I could go deeper into this conversation, hit finer points and regurgitate words that have been uttered for years now about the pros and cons or how we need to see things from the other perspective but ultimately it doesn’t really matter. Me writing this doesn’t even matter, in the grand scheme of things one day none of us are going to exist. We are deciding between allowing a life to keep living or prohibiting a life from ever doing so in the first place. A fetus isn’t aware of it’s existence, it doesn’t understand family and friends or societal constructs, yet a living breathing woman is quite very aware of the effect that baby will have in her existential timeline. We have one life to live and it’s our duty to make it the best life we possibly can, what’s the point in ruining a life just to allow another to live.
Anyway, that’s my opinion, thanks.